FoRenSics
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FoRenSics
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LoSt BuT FoUnD, Chelsea and Football

My husband @flowidealism went to the University of Chicago to do his PhD specifically to prove the free market economists wrong. He was that committed. He became depressed for two years... Because he learned he'd been lied to his entire life. He went looking for ammunition and came back converted. Most people avoid that risk. They'd rather keep believing something comfortable than find out it's wrong, because once you see it, you can't go back to not seeing it.

In his book, Walter Rodney pointed out that colonialism deliberately restricted local trade and industry in Africa. To suggest that Walter Rodney was wrong while blaming Africa's poverty on the very policies which he wrote about just exposes the fact that Magatte Wade never actually read "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".

Ministry of Interior Ghana website hacked Ministry of Health Ghana website hacked Ministry of Communications Ghana website under a DDOS attack all this today



Walter Rodney was wrong. Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work. Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer. Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.


Walter Rodney was wrong. Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work. Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer. Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

Vietnam was devastated by decades of war, bombings, and failed socialist policies, yet it began growing rapidly once it liberalized parts of its economy. Ethiopia was never colonized, yet for decades it was it was the poster child of poverty and famine on the continent. History matters, but so do the economic policies countries choose today.









